Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation. Votes: 6
The worst losses come at night. Votes: 3
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. Votes: 2
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein. Votes: 2
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy. Votes: 0
Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction. Votes: 0
Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage. Votes: 0
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions. Votes: 0
I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass. Votes: 0
Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased. Votes: 0
The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of. Votes: 0
The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't. Votes: 0
The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence. Votes: 0